When have you been the bad guy?

I work with people who have dementia and it often happens that they are desperately trying to go somewhere so that they can do something very important (example, trying to get home so they can feed their children who will starve without them). However, they are 90 years old and their children are old too now... their mind has just reset itself to a previous time in their lives. And I'm the one who has to say, "No Mrs. Smith, your children are fine. They know you are here and you can't leave." It kills me every time because they genuinely believe that I'm keeping them from their kids and they are so heartbroken.

It sounds fairly accurate from what I've seen. I've heard too that memories are often lost starting with the most recent and working backwards in time. Imagine thinking you're 25 and looking in the mirror and seeing an old, wrinkled, frail person that you don't (and won't) recognize staring back.

It links in to diversional therapy with very interesting stories. One site had a lady that couldn't remember 2 hours prior, but vividly recalled WWII and would occasionally say to the nurse that the bomb siren had gone off.

After a while of dismissing this, they thought; what if we put some canned food in the broom closet and went along with it?

I worked for a cellphone chain for almost a decade before I jumped into my current line of work. We catered to the slums of the city and every day I made someone's day worse. I always tried to show that I was on their side, but some people just can't take a hint even when I say to their face that "My hands are tied". There would be literally nothing else I could do and I'd still have to call the cops from time to time. I was good at what I did, and sometimes I could bend the rules. However when someone comes in berating you for something some asshole across town did that has nothing to do with the guys that own your franchise. I stopped giving a single fuck after two swear words.

I've worked in IT for years, and when i was doing hardware repairs I made people cry almost every day. Any time when they hard drive was toast and they lost that paper they were working on, or those pictures of their dead grandmother, whatever the case may be. Also anytime they had voided the warranty, usually by spilling liquid on their laptop. I was the one to tell them that it wasn't covered and they just destroyed their new $1500 computer. I've ruined a lot of people's days.

I'll admit it, I used to bully this one kid. His last name was Wee so that was probably a big part of it but mostly because I was a little shit who needed to make fun of someone to feel better about himself. Sorry dude.

I turned the entire lobby against me the other day on GTA Online. It was full of the crew I was in and someone lured me into a trap, which ended in me being shot at by 3 people. So then I got my sticky bombs...

Almost daily dealing with kids. Although being the bad guy when it's necessary is really being the good guy in the long run because hopefully my kids will come out alright because they're not coddled....

I spend a lot of time being the bad guy around the office. The owner is a really nice guy, very accommodating - too accommodating.

He often forgets just how many people are and what needs to be done to make the the company run before, saying "don't worry about doing that" or "I think we can work something out for that day off". I often have to step in and say no.

When I was 16 I was childish and confused and I told my boyfriend I didn't love him anymore while we were arguing on the phone, and right after I said it my phone died (I was out but I went home when it died). He took the bus from home (it's around an hour bus ride) late at night to come to my house. I opened the door and he was just standing there sobbing, I let him in and he didn't stop crying for two hours. We talked and eventually made up and we've been together since (happened a little over 2 years ago), it was one of the biggest mistakes I've made and I'm lucky we didn't break up for good afterwards but I feel awful about it to this day.

I once beat the shit out of a guy at a party. He told me my hat was stupid, so I got in his face. Anyone who knows me knows I care more about my car than anything, and he said my car sucked. I beat the shit out of him.